2020 Training:
Week 1: Gardener’s Botany
Quiz- Chapter 1- Botany Basics
Botany Presentation by Chip Bubl
Week 2: Pesticide Safety, Soils & Fertilizers; Insects in Your Garden
Quiz- Chapter 19 – Understanding Pesticides
Quiz – Chapter 2+5 – Soils, Fertilizers, Composting
Quiz – Chapter 14 – Basic Entomology
Soil & Fertilizer Resources by Claudia Groth
Entomology Presentation by Jean Natter
Week 3: Resource Fair / Composting
Volunteer Payback Options 2020
Week 4: Vertebrate Pests, Fruit Trees and Hands on Pruning
Quiz – Chapter 18 – Vertebrate Pest Management
Quiz – Chapter 10 – Home Orchards
Week 5: Landscape Care & Pruning
Quiz – Chapter 21 – Sustainable Landscape Design
Woody Plants & Pruning Presentation by Weston Miller
Week 6: Vegetables & Plant Propagation
Quiz – Chapter 7 – Vegetable Gardening
Vegetable Presentation by Chip Bubl
Quiz – Chapter 3 – Plant Propagation
Week 7: Plant ID
Quiz- Chapter 22 – Plant Identification
Week 8: Weeds, IPM and Berries
Weeds with Chip Bubl 6/15/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_lvfpq8y8
Link to Weeds slideshow presentation: https://oregonstate.box.com/s/vdvj3de5xzneradb2onqqnzwb2a08yon (Links to an external site.)
Quiz – Chapter 17 – Weed Management
Quiz- Chapter 20 – Integrated Pest Management
Quiz – Chapter 11 – Berry Crops
Q&A Integrated Pest Management 4/29/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_d934w4mz
Week 9: Diagnostics Practice
Q&A Diagnosing Plant Problems 4/1/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_9l1sbdf7
Q&A Plant Pathology 4/15/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/1_ftudhtdi
Week 10: Honey Bees & Pollinators, Plant Problem Diagnosis, Household Insects
Native Bees with Deb Brimacombe 5/20/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_pxfgurk4
Link to folder with additional Native Bee Resources: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvDl0B5NXEV5gaEHtmee3RdNixqVgQ?e=h2Up8S (Links to an external site.)
Backyard Honeybee Keeping with Linda Zahl 5/27/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_bd5nzklq
Quiz – Chapter 15 – Plant Disease
Quiz – Chapter 16 – Diagnosing Plant Problems
Household Pests with Chip Bubl 6/8/2020:
https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_ae9g3lf3
Cool 3-min. video about mosquitoes:
How Mosquitoes Use Six Needles to Suck Your Blood | Deep Look (Links to an external site.)
2020 MG Training – OPEN BOOK REVIEW
Test review – Trainees may see the live recording of the test review Q&A in their Canvas account or email Sonia.Reagan@oregonstate.edu for an answer key.
BONUS: Home Food Preservation with Jenny Rudolph 6/10/2020: https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_rxo9u6hh
2019 Training:
Week 1: Gardener’s Botany
Quiz- Chapter 1- Botany Basics
Week 2: Fruit Trees
Quiz – Chapter 10 – Home Orchards
Training & Pruning Your Home Orchard PNW400
Week 2: Insects in Your Garden
Entomology Handout by Jean Natter
Entomology Slideshow by Jean Natter
Quiz – Chapter 14 – Basic Entomology
Week 3: Resource Fair/Composting
Week 3: Plant Problem Diagnosis
Deciphering Key MG Resources by Jean Natter
Quiz – Chapter 15 – Plant Disease
Quiz – Chapter 16 – Diagnosing Plant Problems
Week 4: Vertebrate Pests
Quiz – Chapter 18 – Vertebrate Pest Management
Vertebrate Pests Slideshow by Chip Bubl
Week 4: Pesticide Safety
Quiz- Chapter 19 – Understanding Pesticides
Pesticide Safety Presentation 2019 by Chip Bubl
Week 4: Soils & Fertilizers
Soil and Fertilizer Practice Sheet by Claudia Groth
Soils Handout by Claudia Groth
Soil Texture and 100 sqft Estimates
Quiz – Chapter 2+5 – Soils, Fertilizers, Composting
Week 5: Diagnostics Practice
Responding to Clientele about Marijuana Questions
Diagnostics Practice Presentation 2019 by Debra Brimacombe
Week 6: Vegetables
Fall & Winter Vegetable Gardening in the PNW (PNW548)
Fertilizing Your Garden (EC1503)
Vegetable Presentation by Chip Bubl 2019
Quiz – Chapter 7 – Vegetable Gardening
Week 6: Intro to Propagation
Propagation Handout by Elizabeth Howley
Cutting ‘Tips’ by Elizabeth Howley
OSU Publication: How to Build Your Own Raised-Bed Cloche
Week 7: Weeds
Weeds Presentation 2019 by Chip Bubl
Quiz – Chapter 17 – Weed Management
Week 7: Hands-on Propagation
Cutting Propagation Workshop for MG 2019
Week 8: Berries
Quiz – Chapter 11 – Berry Crops
Berries Presentation by Jane Collier
Week 8: Integrated Pest Management
Quiz- Chapter 20 – Integrated Pest Management
IPM Handout 2019 by Claudia Groth
IPM Presentation 2019 by Claudia Groth
Week 9: Landscape Care & Pruning
Landscape Care & Pruning Presentation 2019 by Weston Miller
Quiz- Chapter 21 – Sustainable Landscape Design
Week 9: Plant ID
Plant ID Presentation 2019 by Sonia Reagan
Quiz- Chapter 22 – Plant Identification
Week 10: Honeybees & Pollinators
Habit for Bees Presentation 2019 by Debra Brimacombe
Native Bees Presentation 2019 by Debra Brimacombe
Honeybee & Pollinator Presentation 2019 by Linda Zahl
Final Review – Due 4/13/19
2019 St. Helens Master Gardener Open Book Review
